October 24, 2017, 08:23:42 AM

There are interesting and beautiful things that happen all around the world. I wanted to begin a thread that captures images of beautiful scenery, nature, places and events that makes us feel good, contemplate, be happy and grateful to share this world.REMEMBER!!...these simple rules for posting photos and videos;

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The only problem with the world is that the idiots are cocksure and intelligent are doubtful.

A young girl explores the Exxopolis installation during a media preview for the Brisbane Festival, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Exxopolis is an interactive walk-in inflatable sculpture, inspired by Islamic architecture, natural geometry and Gothic cathedrals.Picture: Dan Peled/EPA

The Gulden Leeuw (Golden Lion) of Holland arrives on the Thames at Tilbury for the Tall Ships Festival 2014Picture: David Williams/REX

Indian school girls wear saree as they perform a Thiruvathirakali, a popular group dance ahead of the Onam festival and on Teachers' Day at a school in New Delhi. The Onam harvest festival will be celebrated mostly in India's southern state of Kerala.Picture: RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images

The Solar observatory at the peak of the Lomnicky Stit, in Slovakia's High Tatras mountains. The coronal station at Lomnicky Stit observatory systematically observes emission spectral lines of the corona.Picture: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images

Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects during heavy rain at the Sikh Shrine Golden temple in Amritsar. Heavy rains, which fell in several areas of northern India, have brought respite from the scorching heat of previous days.Picture: NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images

Skyscrapers emerge through a blanket of fog and cloud in Dubai as seen from the top of the world's tallest building, the Burj KhalifaPicture: Bjoern Lauen / Barcroft Media

The Holi Festival of Colours in Lisbon, Portugal. The festival is fashioned after the Hindu spring festival Holi, which is mainly celebrated in some regions of India and Nepal.Picture: AP

Paddleboarders glide their way effortlessly across a flooded plain dotted with trees poking out of the rising high water. Photographer Ales Komovec, 45, took the stunning landscape shot from a hilltop above the flooded Planina plain in Ljubljana, SloveniaPicture: Ales Komovec/Solent News

Thrillseeking slackliners rest in their hammocks attached to ropes stretched between rocky outcrops during the International Highline Meeting in Monte Piana, near Misurina, in the northern Italian AlpsPicture: EPA/Balazs Mohai

Lightning forks over the Clifton Suspension bridge, Bristol in the early hours. The UK was hit by violent thunder storms last night with flash flooding reported in areas.Picture: Pete Griffiths / SWNS.com

The only problem with the world is that the idiots are cocksure and intelligent are doubtful.

A bright flash of lightning strikes through the eye of a storm cloud over farmland near Broken Bow, Nebraska. Freelance photographer Vanessa Neufield caught the amazing lightning strike on camera. Vanessa, from Calgary in Alberta Canada, said: "Getting the shot through the clouds was luck and great timing."Picture: Vanessa Neufeld/Solent News

A competitor leaps into the air during a bridge jumping competition in Kanal ob Soci, SloveniaPicture: Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters

Australia's Nathan Hedge rides a wave at Teahupoo, on the French Polynesian island Tahiti during the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf event, part of the ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) world tourPicture: GREGORY BOISSY/AFP/Getty Images

Clowns pose for a selfie after a parade during the Clown Festival in Kuala LumpurPicture: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images

A daredevil photographer dangles his feet over an erupting volcano as it looks like he may jump into the boiling lava. Iurie Belegurschi dangled his feet from the side of the helicopter he was using to shoot Holuhraun, a lava field more than 25 miles from the active Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland.Picture: Iurie Belegurschi / Barcroft Media

The only problem with the world is that the idiots are cocksure and intelligent are doubtful.

An Attacus atlas butterfly sits on the face of a visitor to the Botanical Garden of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech RepublicPicture: RADEK MICA/AFP/Getty Images

The Munich Oktoberfest, which began on September 20 this year, is a huge crowd-puller and justly lays claim to being the largest of its kind in the world. Last year more than six million people attended, between them consuming 6.7 million litres of beer and eating more than 114 oxen. The festival spans just over two weeks and is held annually in a meadow just outside Munich's city centre. In addition to eating, drinking and dancing, visitors can enjoy colourful parades, a variety of fairground rides - and for those not themselves in traditional Bavarian gear, admire those that are.

Visitors enjoy the atmosphere at Augustiner Beer tent after the Parade of Costumes and Riflemen (Trachten- und Schuetzenzug)Picture: Getty Images

A waitress carries 11 liters of beer in the Hofbraeu tent during the 181st Oktoberfest in MunichPicture: EPA/MARC MUELLER

Last Edit: December 02, 2017, 09:57:54 PM by Diego Cordero

The only problem with the world is that the idiots are cocksure and intelligent are doubtful.